It doesn’t happen often, but either by malware attack or networking snafu (sometimes when computers are removed from a domain), you can lose permissions and ownership of your files. Microsoft Windows’ ...

Active Directory (AD) is an excellent file and folder permissions, security, and management tool. It allows administrators to give permission to access specific folders to specific users. Simply put, ...

A few weeks ago, I answered a reader question about “inherited permissions,” or how to deal with a shared folder that multiple people use via file serving on a regular Mac, not one running macOS ...

The home folder permissions in OS X are set up in such a way as to provide you access to your files, but only allow other users to see certain shared folders in your account. Every now and then people ...

Just as your office file cabinets should be off-limits to competitors and snoops, access to the files on your company's computers should be restricted as well. The CentOS operating system enables you ...

I'm relatively new to Windows server management. I'm trying to setup folder redirection with GPO. The file server that's getting redirected is in a LXD fedora container. To me this indicates a problem ...

As mentioned, Effective Permissions is a set of permissions for any user or user group to access the file or folder. Windows sets permissions for each file or folder object to secure the user’s ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is an excerpt from Take Control of Permissions in Mac OS X, a $10 electronic book available for download from TidBits Electronic Publishing. The 90-page ebook ...

There are instances where users may change the permissions of files and folders on their computers, which can result in file access errors. Apple Discussions poster mlevack writes: "After a Hard Drive ...

Your company's network administrator sets the users' access rights and roles to Microsoft Outlook folders. Access rights enable users to share folders such as their ...

This is more of an administrative sanity thing than a problem, per se... I've got a file share full of user home directories, where they can save stuff that they don't need to share with each other.